'Jumper'-Style Teleportation Just Barely Possible

'Jumper'-Style Teleportation Just Barely Possible

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As fantastic as teleportation seems, it can actually happen in the real world.

"The fact is that physicists have teleported things over miles," said Edward Farhi, the director of MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics. "It doesn't violate the laws of physics."

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Wow, beam me up, Scotty!

It's awesome to think that this is really possible, and that scientists HAVE successfully "transmitted" matter from point A to point B. Just imagine what the military research labs have going with this kind of research/technology.

Then think about the implications of this... super soldiers on the battle field, spies with teleportation abilites, etc. Pretty spooky, if you ask me...

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It would be awesome to think this technology exists but telepotation IMO of things over miles is a few years away yet.
If it is true it would change the face of travel forever,my only problem is why reveal this now?? surely it's a massive secret that we shouldn't know yet

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The above quote from the article states that they HAVE successfully teleported objects over miles of distance. I would like to find more information about this, but the guy from MIT says that not only is it possible, it's been done.

Pretty amazing news, indeed!

I'm hoping that some of our scientific brains on this forum will post and let us know what they think of this news. As for myself, I'm pretty much in pre-school when it comes to this kinda science!

Thanks for posting, btw.

By 'objects' damajikninja means a couple of electrons.
Soon it will be a "cloud" of electrons.

Entangled clouds raise hope of teleportation

Whenever they say something is "barely possible", it's probably a good bet that the technology already exists and has for God knows how long.

Peace

Hmm very intresting lets ask the navy sailors that were zapped into another dimension and all died. during the phili project.

possible but not survivable

reply to post by Dr Love

My thoughts exactly. The military research labs are always 40-50 years ahead of public science, so I can only imagine what DARPA and other labs have going.

Do I speculate that they have working teleportation systems for things such as humans and craft? Maybe, but probably not yet. If anything, I bet the skunk works boys have something that can teleport a donut from the microwave to the table.

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Ahhhh, ok, now I'm onboard with what's going on. Yes, it's only a matter of time (with a capital T, tho.:duh before we can apply this discovery into everyday use.

Unless, of course, you're the guvment!

I don't think it was so much 'teleportation' as it was changing a photon's behavior at a long distance.

As I remember it they were observing two photons at different locations and whenever they did something to one, the other changed.

Or something like that...

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Good link.

Atoms can be persuaded to interact with each other so that events affecting one instantly affect another - no matter how far apart they are. Dubbed entanglement, this could open the way to superfast quantum communications systems and ways of teleporting objects by instantly transferring their properties from place to place.

Entangled clouds raise hope of teleportation

But the above suggests to me, and correct me if I'm wrong, transferring the properties of an object doesn't indicate the actual transference of the original object, no?

Yup. Pretty much.

What was teleported (so far as the public knows) is the quantum state of the entangled objects.

Kinda disappointing, huh?

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I can see the use of this in evacuation procedures. Like coastlines that are about to be hit by a tsunami. Or areas of volcanic activity can be evacuated when the danger becomes present. Can't wait till they can actually form an atomic pattern map of everything they teleport...That would probably make things a bit more stable and a bit safer.

Originally posted by damajikninja
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The above quote from the article states that they HAVE successfully teleported objects over miles of distance.

I would like to find more information about this, but the guy from MIT says that not only is it possible, it's been done.

Great that means I wont have to waste gas to go grocery shopping, just type in on the touch screen what I need and ZAP, there it is.

I can't remember where I remember this from but I remember there being teleportation booths that would destroy the people who entered and produce a duplicate of the person inside another booth. Probably a TV show, just can't remember which one.

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Haha! Yeah, it'll be the next new feature for the iPod/iPhone.

Ooo, or maybe Microsoft will bring it to market? It fits with their slogan...
"Where do you want to go today?"

It is hard to imagine something like this working on a living being. While you could possible arrange the molecules to be a pretty good imitation, how would you be able to give it life? How you be able to transfer our conscious selves into those other bodies? Definitely cool to think about though.

I couldn't imagine being destroyed by a lazer atom by atom. So they could figure out what to teleport somewhere.Doesn't sound to pleasant.Now you could teleport drones to make discoveries and have it relay back information. Spot a new star in the sky triangleate the location.Teleport a drone to take a better look.Admit a light type drone which is mostly plasma or energy would be best choice for teleporting.

Well see the application of this in computing and communications way before we ever see anything else. Hopefully it will let us build Skynet and then it can expand on the technology to teleport information through not just space but time.

cue Terminator theme

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